Washing-machine



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE., f a

N. A. PATTERSON AND WILLIAM L. RAMSEY, OF KINGSTON, TENNESSEE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,714, dated August 21, 1860.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, N. A. PATTERSON and iV. L. RAMsEY, both ofKingston, in the county of Roane and State of Tennessee, have invented anew and Improved ClothesiVashing Machine; and we do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figures 1, and 2, are side sectional views ofourinvention, the two planes of section crossing each other at rightangles.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s in bothfigures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of a circularperforated vpressure plate placed within a suitable tub and operated ashereinafter shown, whereby clothes may be perfectly7 cleansed in anexpeditious 1nan ner, and without the least injury to the same, the wearproduced by friction in the various rubbing machines hitherto devisedfor washing clothes being entirely obviated.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct ourinvention we will proceed to describe it.

A, represents a tub which may be of the usual form, and B, is a framecomposed of two uprights a, a, connected at their upper ends by a crosspiece ZJ, the uprights 6l, a, being attached to a suitable base orplatform c, on which the tub A, is placed, the tub being betweenthe twouprights.

C, is a cross bar the ends of which are attached to slides CZ, (Z, thatare fitted in grooves e, at the inner sides of the uprights a, a, theslides being allowed to work freely up and down in the grooves e, e.Through the center of the bar C, a vertical shaft D, passes, the lowerend of which has a crank f, at tached with a vertical pendant g, at itsouter end. The lower end of this pendant is hollowed out so as to form asocket it, to receive a ball z', at the upper end of a shaft y', onwhich a circular perforated and dish shaped pressure plate E, is placedsaid plate fitting within the tub A, as shown clearly in both figures.The lower end of the shaft j, is stepped at the center of the bottom ofthe tub A, as shown at 7c, the step la, being coincident or in line withthe sha-ft D, of crank j'.

The operation is as follows. The tube A, is supplied with a requisitequantity of suds or soap and water and the clothes to be operated uponare placed in the tub beneath the plate E. The crank f, is then rotatedby any convenient power and the clothes beneath the plate E, aresubjected to a pressure by said plate which has what may be termed awabbiing motion and causes the suds to be forced through the texture ofthe clothes thoroughly cleansing the same in a very short time withoutinjury and without breaking buttons which may be attached to them.

The plate E, may be readily adjusted in the tub A, and removed therefromso that the clothes may be placed in and removed from the tub byadjusting the bar C, and consequently the crank f, in which the upperend of the shaft j, is fitted.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

The circular perforated and dish-shaped pressure plate E, placed withina tub A, and having the upper end of its shaft j, fitted in a crank f,of a shaft D, all being arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

N. A. PATTERSON. WM. L. RAMSEY. i/Vitnesses:

G. W. STEPHENsoN, B. B. LENOIR.

